Improvement in buttons



` UNITED STATES- PATENT (-)FFICEQ4 o. I-looMIs, oF HARTFORD, commer;CUT.l

-IMPRovEMi-:VNT iN BUTTONS.

Sjfgecifcation forming part of Letters Petent No. 48,079, dated June 6,1865 antedatod May 23, 1865.

To all whom #may concern, Be it known that 1,0. M. Looms, of HartforCL'ijn the couniy of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a. new and useful Iniprovenientin Buttons; 'and I .do hereby de- "clure that'the following 'is a full, clear, and exact description of thesanife, reference beingl had to the accompanying drawings, making a part oftnis specification, and to the letters-ot reference marked thereon. l

button of simple construction', ywhich lmay be secured toclothingor othercrticles in a more are section s.

The button consists of the two circuler plates or disks A and B and the staple G. D represents the cloth or other-material toA which'the.-

button is to ,be secured. The npperdisk, A,

is 'so formedthat two curved or concave sur-- faces are produced inside the button and near the center, as shown et aa in Figs. Z'J'and 3. The lower'disk may be made flat or otherwise,

as desired. The two disks are secured together at their edges Vin any convenient manl .'ner. '-Twc holes, c and d, are formed in the lower-disk, for the reception of the two ends The object'of my invention vis to provide a.'

When Ithis button is lo be used, the two ends.'

of the staplev C Iire first passed through the `cloth or material to which the buttonis to be secured, as shown atc e,lf`ig. 2.' l'The ends of thestaple are thencaused io enter the holes c and d in the lower disk of the button, and,

yb'eing-foreedin by'mean's of al small `presser.- oilierwise, the two sharpened ends .of the staple are broughtI forcibl y in contact with the curved or concave surfaces a a.. ofthe ,upper disk, and are thereby caused to. bend over or clinch inside the button, by which means the ends 'of the staple are held securely within the button, and consequently the button is firmly secured'4 to the cloth or other material, as fully shown in Fig. .y

Having thus described my invention,v what I claim, indl desire fo seeureby Letters Patent of the Uuited'States,is- 4, n

The employment of the staple C, in combination with the disk A, having the curved or conceive surfaces inside the button, substantially ars-and for the purpose hereindescribed.

onns'rnn M. Looivns.

Witnesses: i

WM. R. LANDFEAR,

. Cnsn. 

